Corner-iron



(No Model.)

T. LUMSDON.

CORNER IRON.

- No. 312,481. PatentedI-eb. 17, 1885.

UNITED STATES,

THOMAS LUMSDON, OF MARION, VIRGINIA.

CO RNER IRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,481, dated February17, 1885.

Application filed October 23, 1884. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. THOMAS LUMSDON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Marion, in the county of Smyt-h and State of Virginia, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Corner-Irons, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being bad to the accompanyingdrawings.

My invention has relation to corner-irons for all wheeled vehicles, suchas buggies, jerseys, &e.; and it consists in the construction and novelarrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, andparticularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the outsidecorner-iron. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of the inside corneriron.Fig. 3is adetail perspective of one of the attachingplates, showing thedovetail projection for engaging the groove in the lower flange of theoutside corneriron. Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view of a portion of 3.vehiclebody, showing the attachiug-plate and corner-iron in place.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates a portionof a vehicle body having a round corner. 13 is one ofthe side sills, andB one of the end sills. of the body, which are connected by a mortiseand tenon andare rounded on the outside, as shown. B B are the side andend rails. which are secured to the inner faces of the side-boards andend-boards of the body, near the upper edges of said respective boards,in the usual manner. The meeting ends of said side and end rails arealso rounded. on the outer faces of the side and end boards,

so that when the outside corner-irons are in place their outer faces attheir edges will be flush with the outer faces of the side-boards andend-boards of the vehicle-body. The inside corner-iron, D, is providedwith a basefiange, D, and is secured to the body-sills B tion or plane,and is provided with a rectangnlar bend or seat, D, near its upperendfor the reception of the meeting ends of the side and end rails, B B".Above the seat D the vertical portion D is continued, and its up-Shoulders Care provided per edge is flushwith the upper edges of theend-boards and sideboards of the body. The outer corner-iron, E, used inconnection with the inside corner-iron, D, is also concavo-convexinhorizontal cross-section, and is provided with a base-tlange, E,provided with a dovetail recess, E The upper end of the outercorner-iron, E, is provided with an inwardly-projecting curved flange, Ewhich is rounded on its upper face, forming, substantially, a knife-edgeon its inner curve. A recess, F, is provided in the under faces of thebody-sills at the meeting ends, and in this recessF, I provide atriangularshaped locking-plate, F, having a tongue, F which fits thedovetail recess E when the cornerirons are in place. The lockingplate Fis secured in place by a bolt, G, passed up through the looking-plate F,the side and end sills, and through the baseplate of the insidecorner-iron, D, and this bolt is secured by a nut. This bolt G servesalso to secure the base of the inside iron, D, which latter is furthersecured by two screws driven one into the side sill and the other intothe end sill of the vehicle-body. Screws are also passed through thevertical portion of the seat D into the side and end rails. The innerandouter corner-irons are further secured near their middle portions andnear their upper portions by bolts and nuts, so that the body is madeexceedingly strong and durable.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new. anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. The hereindescribed corner-iron, hav ing its base notched orrecessed, as described, and the locking-plate having a tongue fitting inthe recess or notch, as set forth.

2. The combination, with a vehiclebody, of the inside iron having theflanged base, and the outside iron having the top and base flanges, andbolts passing through the bottom of the body and connecting the flangedbase portions of the two irons, as set forth.

3. The combination, with a corner-iron having a top flange and a baseprovided with a dovetail recess, of a triangular lockingplate providedwith a tongue, F, and bolts for securing them in place, substantially asspecified.

4. The combination, with the vehicle-holy,

of the inside iron having the flanged base and dovetail recess, thetriangular locking-plate seat D near its upper end, and the outside withtongue, and the bolts and nuts for securiron having the upper flange andbase-flange, ing said irons to place, substantially as specia dovetailnotch or recess provided in the fied;

5 base-flange, and a1ocking-p1ate provided with In testimony that Iclaim the foregoing as a dovetail tongue to fit the said notch or re myown I have hereto affixed my signature in cess, as set forth. I presenceof two witnesses.

5. lhe combination, with the inside cor- THOMAS LUMSDON. ner-iron havingthe flanged base and seat D Witnesses: 10 of the outside corner -ironhaving the top H. P. COPENHAVER,

flange, and the base-flange provided with a JOHN OURTIN.

